The word “unexpected” resonates with me. So much focus during this season is on preparation for what is coming. All the familiar images, music, words and traditions. A predictable, domesticated Christmas. Do we still have the capacity to be surprised, gobsmacked even?
If God can manifest in the birth of a child to peasant parents in an obscure backwater of the world, then God can manifest anywhere, in anything, at any moment. Incarnation all around. I am on the lookout for the unexpected God this Advent.
The word “unexpected” resonates with me. So much focus during this season is on preparation for what is coming. All the familiar images, music, words and traditions. A predictable, domesticated Christmas. Do we still have the capacity to be surprised, gobsmacked even?
If God can manifest in the birth of a child to peasant parents in an obscure backwater of the world, then God can manifest anywhere, in anything, at any moment. Incarnation all around. I am on the lookout for the unexpected God this Advent.